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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/leunuque-et-le-mechant.html">Fable précédente</a></div>
<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 3, Fable 12</span><span class="fp-text">LE POULET ET LA PERLE</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber III, Fabula XII</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">PULLUS AD MARGARITAM</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un poulet,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">en cherchant sa nourriture sur un fumier, trouva une Perle.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Précieux objet dit-il, tu es là dans un lieu indigne de toi&nbsp;!</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">si un avide connaisseur t'apercevait,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il t'aurait bientôt rendu ton premier éclat.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Pour moi qui t'ai trouvé, le moindre aliment me serait meilleur ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">je ne puis t'être utile et tu ne peux rien pour moi.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">In sterquilino pullus <span class="fp-correction" title="gallinacius  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">gallinaceus</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="gallinaceus  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">gallinacius</span></span></span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">dum <span class="fp-correction" title="querit  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">quaerit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quaerit  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">querit</span></span> escam margaritam repperit.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Jaces indigno <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n104/mode/1up">p.41</a>]</span> quanta res, inquit, loco&nbsp;!</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hoc si quis pretii cupidus vidisset tui,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">olim redisses ad splendorem maximum.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ego <span class="fp-correction" title="qui  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">quod</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quod  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">qui</span></span> te inveni, potior cui multo est cibus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nec tibi prodesse nec mihi quicquam potes.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">J'adresse cette fable à ceux qui ne me comprennent pas.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hoc illis narro qui me non intellegunt.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/leunuque-et-le-mechant.html">Fable précédente</a></div></td>
<td class="fp-right"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/les-abeilles-et-les-bourdons-juges-par.html">Fable suivante</a></div></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>
<div class="fp-la-fontaine">Lire la fable de La Fontaine&nbsp;: <a href="http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Coq_et_la_Perle">Le Coq et la Perle</a></div>
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